Sub £20 in-car camera that automatically loops recording?
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Not sure about looping, but there are ebay cameras for around £10 that give useable footage and take Micro SD cards.
There are equivalents on amazon as well.
They will record for an hour or so, so would cover most journeys. I gues you intend to simply leave it running and only stop it if there is an incident worth capturing?
I'm not giving recommendations, as I've not used them myself. Their limitations are obvious though - the limited optical quality and low resolution mean that they WON'T give you readable registration plates or facial Identity if that's what you're looking for. Such footage is unlikely to be of real evidential value. You'd need something closer to a £200 system with decent optics and CCD's to give really clear good quality footage.
There are equivalents on amazon as well.
They will record for an hour or so, so would cover most journeys. I gues you intend to simply leave it running and only stop it if there is an incident worth capturing?
I'm not giving recommendations, as I've not used them myself. Their limitations are obvious though - the limited optical quality and low resolution mean that they WON'T give you readable registration plates or facial Identity if that's what you're looking for. Such footage is unlikely to be of real evidential value. You'd need something closer to a £200 system with decent optics and CCD's to give really clear good quality footage.
Search for 'D016 camera' on ebay - these loop record & autostart/stop on switched power (takes mini-USB). I understand that the earlier-and-slightly-cheaper model D011 does not autostart (but will still loop record), so don't buy that if you want this functionality.
Quality is usable during the day and just about at night with dipped beams on, obviously best in good light conditions - just don't expect <insert favourite police-chase-cam show here> results. Numberplates are visible at short distances, but I wouldn't rely on it for identification if something happened quickly. That said, I still think it is potentially very useful for such a small outlay, as the video will clearly show someone pulling out on you, swerving across lanes, reversing/rolling back when they claim they didn't, or even show you clearly sticking within your own lane as it records the sound of someone driving into the side of you - and therefore hopefully puts an end to false blame and helps establish liability against the other party promptly.
Just need to make a decent mount so I can fix it to the top of the A pillar or on the headlining, I'll run a USB cable down the pillar and into switched live on the back of the radio, then I can forget all about it.
Quality is usable during the day and just about at night with dipped beams on, obviously best in good light conditions - just don't expect <insert favourite police-chase-cam show here> results. Numberplates are visible at short distances, but I wouldn't rely on it for identification if something happened quickly. That said, I still think it is potentially very useful for such a small outlay, as the video will clearly show someone pulling out on you, swerving across lanes, reversing/rolling back when they claim they didn't, or even show you clearly sticking within your own lane as it records the sound of someone driving into the side of you - and therefore hopefully puts an end to false blame and helps establish liability against the other party promptly.
Just need to make a decent mount so I can fix it to the top of the A pillar or on the headlining, I'll run a USB cable down the pillar and into switched live on the back of the radio, then I can forget all about it.
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